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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does law need interpretation?
(a) in order to confuse the public
(b) in order to change its meanings
(c) in order to make sure it is not understood
(d) in order to apply it to distinct situations

2. What is Hobbes' idea about self-protection in natural law?
(a) In nature, every person has the right to protect his own life.
(b) Humans have a right to preemptive strikes.
(c) With people it is not necessary.
(d) It is not natural to protect oneself, it should be done by the commonwealth.

3. When does Hobbes suggest it is not logical to follow the Golden Rule?
(a) in times of war
(b) when there are no other people around
(c) during a natural disaster
(d) when no one else is following it

4. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?
(a) having natural wit or a quick imagination
(b) having natural innocence
(c) having insight into spiritual matters
(d) having a high IQ

5. What, left uncontrolled, does Hobbes say can lead to misery and unhappiness?
(a) competition, harmful shyness, and vain glory
(b) hunger, alcohol, and hedonism
(c) pride, sloth, and gluttany
(d) personality, education, and drive

6. How does Hobbes define injustice of an action?
(a) accidents
(b) premeditation
(c) injury
(d) a lawsuit

7. Why must people create a covenant or agreement to give power to one person, or small group of people?
(a) That is the natural way of doing things.
(b) It is not possible to assemble all the people all the time.
(c) Some think too highly of themselves or blow things out of proportion.
(d) Too many cooks spoil the broth.

8. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?
(a) A person speaks a different language.
(b) A person learns the answer to a question or he/she gives up.
(c) A person runs out of anything to say.
(d) A person grows tired of talking and shuts up.

9. How does Hobbes identify political systems?
(a) those which are granted status by the sovereign
(b) thise which are regulated by majority consensus
(c) those which are only governed by an assembly
(d) those which are entirely run by negotiation

10. What does Hobbes call a dominion acquired by conquest?
(a) Despotical
(b) Impoversihed
(c) Democratic
(d) Natural

11. How does Hobbes classify the person or group of people who have someone speak for them?
(a) As helpless
(b) As actors
(c) As uneducated
(d) As dummies

12. What kinds of questions does Hobbes say people have little interest in?
(a) things that involve faith
(b) things that have no known answers
(c) things that have to do with the supernatural
(d) things that have absolute answers like math and science

13. How does Hobbes define liberty?
(a) the absence of opposition
(b) time off from work
(c) the right to vote
(d) the first basic need

14. What does Hobbes say leads to competition among people?
(a) religion
(b) different abilities
(c) different interests
(d) restless desire

15. What happens in an assembly that cannot happen with a monarch?
(a) A monarch has to listen to the nobles.
(b) A monarch cannot disagree with himself.
(c) An assembly wears whatever clothes they want.
(d) An assembly never has to come to a conclusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hobbes' only conditionality regarding all people being created equal?

2. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?

3. What does Hobbes say is needed to protect people from danger?

4. Where can a monarch go for advice?

5. How does Hobbes suggest that people reason?

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